Severe Weather Alerts

[Lightning]

I'm not sure this qualifies as the Local Forecast on the 8s topic, but I have a question about the severe weather alerts with the red scrolling at the bottom of the screen with alerts from the National Weather Service. Why is it that when you are right in the middle of reading the alert all the sudden, there's a warning update with 4 loud beeps? It happens all the time, even when it is the same warning. Also, more than one time for the same warning, you'll hear Allen Jackson "A whatever (severe thunderstorm, flash flood, tornado, etc.) warning has been issued for your area"?

This seems to happen over and over  and over again during severe weather alerts.

[Zach]

I would check and see that there aren't multiple warnings being issued because there are IntelliStars that do serve more than one county around its viewing area.

If that isn't the case, then report the problem to STAR tech support.

[toxictwister00]

Maybe the same warning is just being updated with more information like storm reports than the first initial warning had even if it doesn't say "update" on the warning crawl. Usually when I see the warning crawl it's because Fulton, Dekalb, or Clayton county is being affected, however I have seen the warning crawl show up for counties that border those counties like Cobb, Paulding, Gwinnett, etc.

[Lightning]

I would check and see that there aren't multiple warnings being issued because there are IntelliStars that do serve more than one county around its viewing area.

That's part of it, there were also flash flood warnings but late last night (Between midnight and 7 am), my area was hit hard, a lot of the things I described im my opening post in this thread seemed to be the case.

[Zach]

I would check and see that there aren't multiple warnings being issued because there are IntelliStars that do serve more than one county around its viewing area.

That's part of it, there were also flash flood warnings but late last night (Between midnight and 7 am), my area was hit hard, a lot of the things I described im my opening post in this thread seemed to be the case.

Okay, but that's totally normal..  When a warning scrolls, there is no priority for those, and they display in the order in which they are issued and run for as long as they need to

[Nathan - a.k.a. NWRGeek]

there's a warning update

The NWS issues updates to warnings, known as Severe Weather Statements (Flash Flood and Flood Statement for those warnings) for every warning issued, usually. Occasionally, the office may mess up and fail to issue an update.

there are IntelliStars that do serve more than one county around its viewing area

That's actually perfectly normal, and ones that only serve one county are rare and usually seen in the middle of a large county. The most programmed counties are usually seen around areas with numerous county boundaries in a short area..

(either that, or it's the fact that I live in an area with 4 counties in a small area.)

[Lightning]

That's actually perfectly normal, and ones that only serve one county are rare and usually seen in the middle of a large county. The most programmed counties are usually seen around areas with numerous county boundaries in a short area..

(either that, or it's the fact that I live in an area with 4 counties in a small area.)

Do u live in Georgia? I ask that because Georgia has a lot of small counties.

[Zach]

That's actually perfectly normal, and ones that only serve one county are rare and usually seen in the middle of a large county. The most programmed counties are usually seen around areas with numerous county boundaries in a short area..

(either that, or it's the fact that I live in an area with 4 counties in a small area.)

Do u live in Georgia? I ask that because Georgia has a lot of small counties.

His location is in his profile... 

[Mike M]

Do u live in Georgia? I ask that because Georgia has a lot of small counties.

Per his profile he lives in Massachusetts, although that state also has pretty small counties.

[Lightning]

Do u live in Georgia? I ask that because Georgia has a lot of small counties.

Per his profile he lives in Massachusetts, although that state also has pretty small counties.

Yes, I saw. Yeah, it does, it's a small state also.

[Nathan - a.k.a. NWRGeek]

Do u live in Georgia? I ask that because Georgia has a lot of small counties.

Per his profile he lives in Massachusetts, although that state also has pretty small counties.

Yes, I do live in MA, Dracut to be specific - the northeastern-most town in Middlesex County and a town on the MA/NH border that has yet to get FiOS thanks to the town hall being reluctant ever since it came out. I am along a FOUR COUNTY LINE - Hillsborough and Rockingham in NH and Essex and Middlesex in MA. There's not much space between the Middlesex/Hillsborough, Middlesex/Essex, Essex/Rockingham and Hillsborough/Rockingham lines, and I call it the "Quad Counties". All of them are served by NWS Taunton, except for Rockingham, which is served by Gray, ME.

Here's the interesting part..NWS Taunton always says that we are in SE MA in warnings  , even if it's for just Dracut and the neighboring city of Lowell, and the other immediate Greater Lowell towns of Chelmsford, Tewksbury and Tyngsboro. Additionally, they say Essex County in Eastern MA in warnings, even for just NW Essex, to my immediate east.